BULKHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bulkhead mean? 

• BULKHEAD (noun)
  The noun BULKHEAD has 1 sense:

1. a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments

  Familiarity information: BULKHEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULKHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bulkhead" is a kind of...):

divider; partition (a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another))

Holonyms ("bulkhead" is a part of...):

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

 Context examples 

He had cut through a bulkhead unobserved and had removed one of the sacks of coin, worth perhaps three or four hundred guineas, to help him on his further wanderings.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The bulkhead was too thick for us to hear what he said; but whatever it was it affected the hunters strongly, for the cheering was followed by loud exclamations and shouts of joy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The stench of bad beef was in his nostrils, while in his ears, to the accompaniment of creaking timbers and groaning bulkheads, echoed the loud mouth-noises of the eaters.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I found her fumbling at the wall of the after bulkhead, and, half leading her, half carrying her, I took her up the companion-way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The bulkheads, all painted in clear white and beaded round with gilt, bore a pattern of dirty hands.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And all the while I sat in a half-daze, the drunken riot of the steerage breaking through the bulkhead, the man I feared and the woman I loved talking on and on.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Maud Brewster and I scarcely touched the food before us, gazing, instead, in silent anxiety at each other, and listening to Wolf Larsen’s voice, which easily penetrated the cabin through the intervening bulkhead.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Somewhere a boot thumped loudly and at irregular intervals against the wall; and, though it was a mild night on the sea, there was a continual chorus of the creaking timbers and bulkheads and of abysmal noises beneath the flooring.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)